soup

Me and Aaron went to see Bowling For Soup at the O2 Academy in town last night.

The O2 Academy is next door to the Lord Nelson Hotel on Hotham Street, across the road from Lime Street Station. Back in 1968, after a Who/Small Faces show (what a gig to be at!!!) at the Liverpool Empire, a young Keith Moon found, to his eccentric pride and joy, a drinker at the Lord Nelson Hotel who could both smoke and play a harmonica at the same time. Thankfully Moon didn't smash up the hotel on that occasion.

Anyway, I digress. Bowling For Soup are a much-touted Pop Punk fourpiece from Texas. Aaron absolutely loves them.

I found the band tiresome, unoriginal, generic and totally without any respect for this city. I mean - we gave the world the Beatles, and this is a by-product......

Understandably, the kids lapped it up. Maybe one day they'll wake up and smell the coffee......